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What's your vision?

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Well, I mean, the last year has been transition.

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I'm kind of done working and running companies now.

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So now I'm helping out a lot.

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I've got a few companies down here in the islands that I'm helping learn how to

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market and grow. They have a really huge marketing need down here.

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So it's kind of fun teaching people about QR.

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I mean, there's businesses that aren't even on Google down here.

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So it's fun.

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I throw networking events and meet business owners and help them grow and

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teach them. And this island has like 30,000 people,

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but 2.5 million tourists.

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And that market is just so underutilized.

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These tourists could be spending so much more money down here if we just told

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them where and how. They're on cruise ships, they're flying in,

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they're ready to spend. It's an interesting island and culture,

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but it's fun. The people that I work with,

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you know, one of them's a nonprofit like foster home.

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So I'm helping teach them how to market and how to get more donations and throw

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some events for them so they can raise funds for the,

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they're the only foster home on the island. So.

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Oh wow. And that's super important if they're the only one.

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Yeah. The other one, I guess closed down like probably almost a year ago. Yeah.

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Okay. So you didn't know anything about their need until you actually got out

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there. Is that correct?

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No, I'd never visited the island. So I picked it,

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I guess I picked it cause it was one of the territories.

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So I wanted to come play soccer. I wanted somewhere that was a little more,

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I guess less regulated, less like Colorado.

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And so I did a little research, you know, I was thinking Guam maybe, or, you know,

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American Samoa, but then I, I wanted to be closer to my family.

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My dad's health is fading.

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So I want to be somewhere that's not a 14 hour flight to San Francisco and then

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another flight. And so, oh,

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and another thing was the frontier go wild pass flies here.

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So that means free flights for a year so I can get back and forth easily.

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You know, if I was living in Guam around trip flights,

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probably like 1500 to 2000 each time. So that would add up pretty quickly.

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So, you know, I'm going to say, go ahead.

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No, no, no. I keep going.

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Yeah. So I was like St. Thomas, you know,

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if I can fly there pretty easily and very cheaply and you know,

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if something happens, I can get back to my family pretty quick.

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I go back probably once every month or two and like to surprise my mom,

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surprise her on Easter, surprise her on Mother's Day,

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surprise my whole family at Christmas. That was pretty funny.

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We were on a big Zoom video chat with like 10 of my family,

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like wishing me happy birthday and Merry Christmas.

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And then I just walked right in the door with our favorite meal.

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What? Oh, that's awesome.

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You see my mom and my sister's faces are like, Hey, what? Why is he holding,

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why is he holding my nephew? Why is he holding my son?

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That is awesome. And that's, that's super important is to be able to make it back.

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I commend you on wanting to stay close and, and doing the surprising thing.